If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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